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rendering quality
hi, i have tried everything and hope you can help. i love vegas,it is great. however,i am on the final pass of my daughter’s wedding reception video and now testing via dvd on my tv. when watching it, i notice a lot of interlacing, especially when the camera pans or folks are moving quickly. there’s quite a bit of action, it was a fun reception. i have tried dozens of different rendering settings to mpeg2, vbr 2-pass, high, mid, and low bps, lower first, upper first, none (progressive), allow field-based motion checked, or unchecked…. all kinds of combinations. Some are very little better than others but i still see the horizontal lines. i checked my source file and it is not there when viewing with the same technique, so i am 100% sure it is rendering. i tried to see if vegas supported other codecs but I don’t see that they do. i am willing to pay a little to buy a higher quality codec if that’d resolve.
thank you very much for your help!!!
tim arthur in cary, nc
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Tim, Vegas & DVD Architect have always looked good to me on the final render.
My first question is what kind of camcorder did you use for this production?
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At one time I was having a similar problem. If you are going thru more than one rendering attempt, ie, if you have rendered out in several intermediate steps, you need to go back and be VERY sure you didn’t have the wrong setup in one of those steps. The best you can do is to use “none(progressive)” all thru your process.
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Thanks for the attention. They’ve looked good to me to, but not now. I was using a Sony camcorder, very good quality but still not a prosumer model I recognize. I see the source file that Vegas captured and it looks fine (well except for the color mgt), and in live preview mode (seen while editing), it looks fine, but when I render, whoa, it is interlaced.
I’m on Vegas 7.0.
I would be glad to send a snippet of my source file to someone.
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The suggestion to use progressive scan seems contrary to the Vegas manual where this is used only when output is to be viewed on a computer monitor. I’m now confused.
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i don’t know what you mean by “intermediate steps”. i select the project to render (or of late, a portion of a project for my testing purposes), and then use the rendered product. if not happy with it, i delete or rename, and then render again on subsequent attempts. I have tried everything, even changing my project profile to different settings. i’m pretty sure i have hit my ceiling of knowledge but have got to believe that someone has experienced this before and has figured it out somehow.
thank you again for suggestions.
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[tim arthur] “I was using a Sony camcorder”
Sony makes a wide variety of camcorders.
Was it miniDV, miniDVD or a hard drive model?
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miniDV, standard (not HD), in 16:9 mode. (i no longer have the model number for it but can get it if that is key.) when i capture via vegas, my source material in “project media” looks fine, no visually detectable interlacing.
(pardon my delay in post replies…. I’m having a problem with my account on creative cow for some reason and have submitted a request to eric.)
thanks again, tim
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Hey Tim…
Not sure what’s going on with your video…but I saw that you’re in Cary. So am I. If you do any amount of editing you might be interested to not that I host a monthly Vegas Users Group in my shop in Cary. Maybe you can get some help there…we meet at Flicko’s Video Workshop on Maynard Road. Let me know if you want more details….
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Gary, sounds great! I’ve visited Flickos in past but at the time they were completely HW based. Can you email me at tarthur@nc.rr.com with details? Small world, thanks for the post. Tim
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